Jan 25, 2010 | Science Magazines
Discover magazine listed our PNAS article as #30 on its list of top 100 science stories of 2009. Humans are powerful agents of evolutionary change: Wild animals and plants that are hunted or harvested evolve three times as quickly as they would naturally, according to...
Jan 16, 2009 | Media Coverage, NPR
From Science Friday on NPR, Chris Darimont discusses our recent PNAS paper on human-driven evolution. Listen to the full radio spot here. Can humans angling for the prize-winning fish shift the course of evolution? Research published this week in the Proceedings of...
Jan 12, 2009 | Media Coverage, New York Times
From the NY Times, a Science Times article on our recent PNAS paper. Human actions are increasing the rate of evolutionary change in plants and animals in ways that may hurt their long-term prospects for survival, scientists are reporting. Hunting, commercial fishing...
Jan 12, 2009 | Media Coverage, Science Magazines
From Science magazine, more coverage on our PNAS article. From the dwindling Atlantic cod to the increasingly rare American ginseng plant, species are racing to adjust to relentless human exploitation. According to a new analysis, the rate at which hunted and...